Annal:1989 Hugo Award for Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Hugo Award in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1989 Hugo-Novel winner
- Score: 10.39
Cyteen is bestseller C. J. Cherryh’s masterpiece: a multilayered epic of interstellar cabals and dark human passions; genius, blackmail, and sacrifice; murder, resurrection, and the betrayal of innocence—and loyalty stronger than death… The saga of two young friends trapped in an endless nightmare of suspicion and surveillance, of cyber-programmed servants and a ruling class with century-long lives and the enigmatic woman who dominates them all.
- 1988 Nebula winner
- 1989 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1989 Prometheus finalist
- Score: 22.38
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what’s wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could you just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation?
Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies—now all he had to do was teach them to be free.
- 1989 Campbell 1st
- 1989 Hugo-Novel nominee
- Score: 16.39
Information is power, and even in the peaceful post-millenial age, power corrupts. Data pirates, new-age mercenaries, high-tech shamans, and murder stalk a brutal netherworld of deregulated havens in the Global Communications Network—Islands in the Net.
Red Prophet: Book 2 of Tales of Alvin Maker
- 1989 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1989 Mythopoeic-Adult finalist
- 1988 Nebula nominee
- Score: 18.39
Come here to the magical America that might have been, and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.
- 1989 Hugo-Novel nominee
- 1988 Nebula nominee
- Score: 12.39
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date…The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson’s unique world—lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net…
